The folks that clutch pearls over "de-fund the police" are ok with de-funding pollution cops, workplace safety cops, infectious disease cops, tax cops, banking and finance cops, public air wave cops, food safety cops, election cops, transnational crime cops ...
just wait till the 80 cities building multi million dollar training facilities based on Cop City in ATL start feeling the budgetary effects of running and maintaining them.
Police departments wielding a de facto veto over all municipal governance is one of those things that's strangling every city. And it's doubly infuriating when you try to explain that to people, and they practically jam their fingers in their ears.
it's the exact same thing Trump does with sabotaging the executive. Boots-on-the-ground law enforcement is where the rubber meets the road, and many of the boot-wearers are now even more emboldened by MAGA to defy the actual rule of law.
I found out the money that pays informants is coming from the municipal budget. The cops have their snitches (Gang Stalkers) trained to be a narc squad that follows ppl around who do drugs. & our tax money is paying for this as well for the jails & court proceedings. That industry is a behemoth.
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https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/09/the-quiet-rollout-of-cop-cities-across-the-us-meets-a-growing-resistance/
“People asked for more training”
Holy fucking shit, why. Why? We’re all on this fucking mudball to fucking suffer. Fuck Americans. Slaving nazi genocidal FUCKS
$10m for everything that isn't cops
$1.7b for cops
Please help me somehow my city is starving